http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/ The zensible way to live your life! Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:05:48 GMT Robert Day http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1788 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1788 It strikes me that the very things we enjoy doing most are the greatest obstacles to achieving nirvana. These will be the things that prompt thoughts to Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:58:45 GMT Robert Day http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1787 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1787 Paul, My recommendation is to approach the 'answer' moving backwards with the eyes closed and devoid of any awareness that there is such a thing as an answer. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:27:44 GMT Paul Hughes http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1786 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1786 Buddhism and in particular Zen - Is like - Knitting Fog, the nearer you get to an answer it recedes!   Carpe Diem!   ... From: Robert Day Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:03:26 GMT Paul Hughes http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1785 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1785 We are the sum total of others in our lives. As neonates we are as a new page - pristine! However we then get the emotions and experiences of our mother, Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:57:22 GMT Robert Day http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1784 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1784 So, I was thinking about girls - or more specifically my attachment to them. I'm made uncomfortable by the fact that I cannot pass a pretty girl by without Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:55:59 GMT Robert Day http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1783 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1783 In The Art of Living (2001) the 14th Dalai Lama says, "As your insight into the ultimate nature of reality is deepened and enhanced, you will develop a Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:48:40 GMT Robert Day http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1782 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1782 On this website: http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/karma.html it says: "If we imagine the world as an ocean, we are like the ripples on the ocean. Formations Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:20:45 GMT Paul Hughes http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1779 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1779 Namaste everyone! I have been away for so long that I almost lost the Way. However it seems like it never really happened cos the group has been in a timewarp Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:22:38 GMT Robert Day http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1778 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1778 Hi Paul, Hi Melody, Hi Rochelle, Quiet, yes, just like old times. Let's hope I can keep my big mouse shut and not spoil it! ... Robert. Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:03:32 GMT Paul Hughes http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1777 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1777 Hello everyone, Just thought I would call in as I was passing by. The Path seems a little less well trod lately but I guess we all have to take stock of where Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:46:34 GMT rochelle smith http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1776 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1776 Hi Melody. Hi everyone. This is a real quiet group huh? Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:03:37 GMT missmelodypye http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1775 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1775 Hi Everyone. Just popping in to say hi and see how everyones doing? Cheers Melody Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:45:17 GMT moreloveuk http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1774 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1774 Pete, On a totally different subject I went to see my Mom yesterday (Mother's Day and all that) and she had baked a DolpinEase Pie. She was asking me what the Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:34:50 GMT moreloveuk http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1773 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1773 Now that's interesting Pete because I've been (mistakenly) living in the present. I never realised that there was a further step from that. I guess I'll be Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:54:16 GMT Pete Morris http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1772 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/zensible/message/1772 Hi, Robert, The quote was Dammapada 348 - 'Let go of the past, let go of the future, let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence.